Not everybody enjoys the blood vessel popping promos of hogan or flair. Hart was understated and realistic. He told you he was gonna out wrestle you - and he did.

If you enjoy old-school wrestling where they were trying to make it appear somewhat real then Bret Hart was in a class of his own when it came to selling pain, making a comeback , and working a crisp, snug style.

Bret Hart is the antithesis of the modern era with its ridiculous moves and lack of psychology.

Not everybody enjoys the blood vessel popping promos of hogan or flair. Hart was understated and realistic. He told you he was gonna out wrestle you - and he did.

If you enjoy old-school wrestling where they were trying to make it appear somewhat real then Bret Hart was in a class of his own when it came to selling pain, making a comeback , and working a crisp, snug style.

Bret Hart is the antithesis of the modern era with its ridiculous moves and lack of psychology.

Oh don't Daniel Bryan's promos are matter of fact and not boring

Roode vs Orton was slow and methodical last night and not boring. Bret Hart is just boring

Bret is the best because there is a part of him that thinks wrestling is real, he would get upset if he had to lose. He cared. He was a mark for The Hitman. And now it's annoying sure, but in the day before podcasts and shoot interviews, he was a threat to anybody.

I always like Bret and he was one of my fav stars as a kid. I also remember being one of the only people at school who liked Bret over HBK even though retrospectively, HBK was better altogether.

While Bret's career was cut short by his injury and I think he could've done some great work in the WWE post WCW, I still don't think he would've come close to HBK.

I think Bret missed his chance at turning the montreal screwjob into his favor. He could've turned around to overcome it and become an even bigger star, but he got stuck on it and is forever associated as being "the guy who was salty for decades after a questionable screwjob".

To his benefit, I loved Bret back in the early 90s and his WCW work as well, even though I think WCW sucked at the way they used him, per their modus operandi.

Bret Hart was great although his biggest flaw is taking things way too personal to the point of coming off as a big complainer or holding a grudge for the sake of it at times.

Him being the perfect balance to HBK during their time together as top stars in the WWE was also really important looking back. WWE would have been in a lot worse shape with just HBK as the top star considering his problems at the time and not having the bridge needed for Austin's top stardom rise.

Bret is the best because there is a part of him that thinks wrestling is real, he would get upset if he had to lose.

This is quite false and demonstrates to me that you clearly do not understand Bret Hart....with all due respect. Bret was the ultimate team player and was always willing to do the job for other wrestlers provided that two conditions were met.

1) It was best for business
2) The wrestler receiving the favour would be more than willing to return the favour, and that there was mutual respect for both themselves and for the business.

I hate to use strong language here but I find your post to be quite irresponsible in the way that you have presented your "facts."

Bret did a tremendous job of carrying the WWE during it's "dry period." Bret was a major reason why the WWE kept afloat post Hogan departure. Bret also played a large role in helping Austin get over. In many ways, mid 1990's Bret was similar to John Cena from 2005-2013 (team player, respect of his peers, helping to keep the company afloat during its down period).

I'm not saying he isn't good at wrestling he is really fucking good its just boring

I'm just saying Owen was better all around

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except he wasn't. lazy internet narrative.

Not neccessarily.

While there may be an element of being deified by the IWC post mortem, even Bret has admitted that Owen was actually better than he was - I think the term he had used was "frustratingly better" - but as far as Bret took wrestling overall as SRS F*CK1NG BZNS!!1!, Owen was pretty much the opposite.

The insinuation being that if Owen took the profession even as half as seriously as The Hitman did, he'd be considered one of the greatest of all time; it just wasn't that important to Owen that he go out and prove it as it was to Bret.